MUST BE IN APA FORMAT AND QUESTIONS MUST BE AT LEAST ¾ PAGE LONG.
1. A hospital is trying to determine the cause in the recent increase in the average length of stay. Explain why a data mining approach to answering this question might be useful.
2. Explain the differences between a data mart and a data repository. Please be as descriptive as possible and provide examples.
3. Explain why there are issues with physician licensing in telemedicine.
4. List and describe in detail three functions that an ADT system can support.
5. A physician's office wants to install software to process patient claims to each insurer. Because patients have multiple types of insurance, the software will need to not only transmit the claims but also understand what information needs to be sent to each insurer. Would you choose a two-tier or three-tier architecture for this application? Why?
6. The text states that “individuals may intuitively know that automating a problem will not fix it.” What does this mean, and what else can be done to fix the problem being addressed?
7. As part of 2009s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the government allocated $2 billion to accelerate the adoption of health information technology. Why?
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